You have to upgrade to the much more expensive iPad Pro and add on the Magic Keyboard to get a touchpad built into the keyboard cover. Note that both the Duet and the Surface Go 2 solutions include a touchpad while the iPad’s does not. That’s thicker and heavier than the Surface Go 2 with its integrated kickstand and $130 Type Cover and the iPad with its $159 Smart Keyboard. In that case, the Duet becomes quite chunky at 0.71 inches thick and 2.03 pounds. Things change a bit when you add the rear kickstand cover and keyboard. New Lenovo IdeaPads look like the Chromebooks to beat Lenovo’s IdeaPad 5i is the first Chromebook with a 120Hz refresh rate

Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5i: which 2-in-1 is best? The pen with USI protocol supported Chrome OS and provides an industry-leading 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity for natural writing and sketching, along with a 150 days battery life based on two hours in active use daily. Lenovo USI Pen is great for extended notetaking and writing, fine art, or graphic design.

Lenovo claims that its USI stylus can manage about 150 days on a single battery and gets the same 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity. Where HP’s stylus is a whopping $70, Lenovo’s is just $40. However, that does have its advantages with the most important being cost. Notably, though, this stylus isn’t rechargeable like HP’s, instead using a AAAA battery. Like the HP USI stylus we tried out earlier this year, Lenovo’s Pen can communicate with devices that support USI including the company’s own IdeaPad Duet and other Chromebooks. This week, too, the Pen is finally in stock on Lenovo’s US site for a quick and easy order. This USI stylus first appeared in May, but has only started shipping to customers. Now, Lenovo has released its own USI stylus, the simply named Lenovo USI Pen. The IdeaPad Duet is one of the first Chrome OS tablets that actually matters, and one of its best features is support for the USI stylus standard.

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